The present draft tax proposals states that the introduction of With Holding Tax (WHT) would be only an advanced deduction, and the Payees will be subjected...
The full tragedy of over 400 home-trained nurses being declared unsuitable to work in the USA because of their lack of English proficiency has shocked all...
Snake greeting the eagle from Lord Shiva’s neck By: B Nimal Veerasingham During my middle school days once a month on the last period of the...
US benefits from dual citizenship: By Daya Gamage Sri Lanka enacting the Twenty First Amendment to its Constitution, among other provisions, barring her citizens from holding...
By Dr. Ajith Kumara Consultant Physician President, All Ceylon Medical Officers Association Prof. Senaka Bibile is the greatest medical benefactor of humanity that Sri Lanka has...
According to the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security “Food security is achieved when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to...
By George Braine My father was the youngest of nine children. They grew up not far from Negombo, in their mother’s ancestral village of Boralessa. With...
The Island editorial on 26 Oct.2022 titled “Lucky criminals” was eye catching, as the Constitution of Sri Lanka itself permits the Executive to free criminals as...
Diabetes is a major killer of humans. It is very dangerous. It comes third or fourth after the chief killers namely, heart attacks and strokes. Anyone...
We had constitutions since 1931 when Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was a colony of the British. What we have to see now is whether the constitutions...